not praise it. Vale.

     This piece of prose requires the same kind of agility of 
attention as Troilus and Cressida  itself. It opens like James 
Joyce in the role of “Mr. Germ’s Choice” saying “My consumers 
are they not my producers?” The play’s never having been 
“clapper-clawd with the palmes of the vulgar” may indicate an 
Inns of Court performance. But the preface in its entirety is as 
much an analysis of communication theory as the play itself. 
At the hub of the play (III, iii) the theme of the preface is stated 
at much greater length, beginning:

     		A strange fellow here
     Writes me, that man—how dearly ever parted, 
     How much in having, or without or in—
     Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,